Episodes
Tuesday Nov 26, 2019
Romans 12:3-8 ~ Try Lending a Hand ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Tuesday Nov 26, 2019
Tuesday Nov 26, 2019
This message considers those spiritually gifted believers in Jesus Christ who are willing to pick up a corner of a stretcher in order to help someone do what he or she can’t do for themselves. It looks at those who are willing to take hold of someone and help them do what needs to be done. And it looks at those gifted believers who work quietly behind the scenes so that other believers can do what God called them to do. These are the believers who have been given the spiritual gifts of mercy, helps, and service. These are the gifted believers “Who Lend a Hand.”
Saturday Sep 14, 2019
Romans 12:4-5 ~ Humility in the Functioning Body in Christ
Saturday Sep 14, 2019
Saturday Sep 14, 2019
Ephesians 1:3-4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.
The phrase “in Christ” is used eighty-nine times in the New Testament. This great truth to be “in Christ” means that when you trust Jesus as your Lord and Savior a union is established between Christ and you. This union is established between Christ and you in such a way that everything in Christ that can be shared will be shared with you. Only Christ’s deity and it’s unique God-defining attributes like omnipotence and omniscience cannot be shared. But everything else that Christ is and has is yours in Him.
Saturday Sep 07, 2019
Romans 12:3-8 Exercising Our Gifts in the Right Mind ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Saturday Sep 07, 2019
Saturday Sep 07, 2019
For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. (Romans 12:3)
Paul shows us in Romans 12:3 that you are not to think too highly of yourself. But he also shows us that you are not to think too low of yourself. Godly humility is not thinking too low of yourself, but to think as to have sound judgment. If you are a believer you are a recipient of God’s Grace—not only the grace that saved you, but the grace by which God has gifted you for service. Our spiritual gifts differ according to the grace given to each one of us. But each one of us does have gifts. You are not nothing. You are not someone who can’t do anything or incapable—not at all.
Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith; (Romans 12:6)
Saturday Aug 31, 2019
Romans 12:2 ~ Transformational Living ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Saturday Aug 31, 2019
Saturday Aug 31, 2019
God’s goal for you as a Christian is for you take the same form as His Son, Jesus Christ. The apostle Paul taught that before time began God chose to save believers so that they might come to have the same form as His Son (Romans 8:29).
This expresses the glorious goal of Christlikeness—of becoming like Jesus in our actions, in our behavior, in our thinking, motivations, compassions, love, and in our service to others. It’s everything that it means to be “transformed by the renewing of our minds” (Romans 12:2). In this we “prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Romans 12:1-2 ~ Presentational Worship ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God,
to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice,
acceptable to God,
which is your spiritual service of worship.
Romans 12:1
As we offer our bodies as living sacrifices on the altar of God, we are dead to sin and alive with Christ. So the living sacrifice of the believer doesn’t demand the destruction of the sacrifice as it did in the Old Testament. But it projects the full energy of life that is in Christ Jesus—the fullness of life, the abundance of life, all that it means to live the positive and dynamic life of Christ.
Tuesday Aug 20, 2019
Romans 11:33-38 ~ To God Be the Glory Forever ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Tuesday Aug 20, 2019
Tuesday Aug 20, 2019
At the end of Romans chapter 11, the apostle Paul drops to his knees in praise and adoration for God. Before moving on his letter to the practical conclusions which flow from the grand and distinct doctrines of the Gospel, the apostle pauses to marvel at the ground which he had trekked. And looking back on the whole of Romans 1-11, Paul must exalt his Sovereign. God is worthy to be praised for God knows what He’s doing even when we do not. God is control of all of history even when we don’t get it. Therefore, Paul falls down before God and worships by bursting into a marvelous doxology.
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Romans 11:28-32 ~ The Awesome Sovereignty of God ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Romans 11:28-32 shows us that God is control of all of all of history, even when He is disobeyed. The apostle Paul’s lifts up Israel as the prime example. Israel is now at enmity with God because they have rejected Jesus Christ. Nevertheless, God has made irrevocable promises of blessing which He will fulfill. Therefore, we should stand in awe of God because He designs and controls all of history to display His faithfulness to His promises and the glory of His mercy to sinners.
Friday Aug 09, 2019
Romans 11:25-27 ~ The Salvation of Israel ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Friday Aug 09, 2019
Friday Aug 09, 2019
Romans 11:25-26a
For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery-- so that you will not be wise in your own estimation-- that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved;
Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
Romans 11:16-24 ~ The Metaphor of the Olive Tree ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
In using the analogy of the olive tree in Romans 11:11-15, the apostle Paul shows us that in the Christian church, there is no place whatsoever for anti-Semitism or looking down upon the Jews. We are blessed as Gentile believers in Christ only because we are blessed by being connected to an Abrahamic root. We are blessed by becoming people of an Abrahamic covenant through spiritual heritage. We are blessed because we have been grafted into the stock of Semitic blessing. We are blessed because we are grafted into the covenant of salvation that God made with Abraham.
Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
Romans 11:11-15 ~ The Age-Old Problem in the Middle East ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
What is it about the tiny nation of Israel, historically and even now, that makes it incur the wrath and hatred of most of the peoples of the world? The Bible gives us the reason why Israel’s Arab neighbors and the Muslim word are intent on wiping Israel off the face of the earth. We see the reason for the Nazi Holocaust, the reason for the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, the reason for Islamic terrorism and Jihad, and in the Bible we also see the reason for the Palestinian problem today.
This message takes back to the beginning, back to Genesis, and takes us back to Abraham, the father of faith where the whole problem began.